About Sandra
Sandra Morales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She offers calm, practical guidance for common life problems. Sandra speaks English and sees clients in New Mexico.
She uses approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to meet each person's needs. Sessions focus on small, doable steps and on skills people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Sandra helps clients name what's most important and try new ways of coping. Sandra often supports people working through trauma, grief, burnout, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses sleeping problems, anger, career strain, and relationship concerns.
Her work includes help for those facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, and changes tied to aging. Her style is straightforward and respectful. She encourages clients to notice patterns and then experiment with new choices.
Therapy aims to build clear, real strategies rather than only talk about feelings. Practical details are part of the plan. Sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Costs vary by location and are handled through a cancellable subscription. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people connect with their values and take small actions toward them despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It often helps with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and mood management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of relating and coping with loss or abandonment.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Sandra will listen to your goals, try a few methods, and adjust the plan together. The aim is to find techniques that feel useful in daily life and fit your pace.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let you have a full conversation and use worksheets or exercises together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, brief coaching between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English